Edward Snowden’s New App Uses Your Smartphone to Physically Guard Your Laptop – discussion around the “Haven” app – what is not discussed in the article is the fact that the usage of the app could be problematic in some countries due to privacy laws – link

Dark Caracal: State-Sponsored Spyware for Rent– hardware killswitches for sensors is a nice thing to have, unfortunately there is no market for it (yet) – link

Getting product security engineering right – “a comprehensive product security program should probably start with the assumption that no matter how many resources we have at our disposal, we will never be able to stay in the loop on everything that’s happening across the company” – link

Hibernation and Page File Analysis – Not All is Lost When you Lose Your Memory – link

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Understanding the Limitations of HTTPS – “HTTPS is a necessary condition for secure browsing, but it is not a sufficient condition” – link

“I figured out a way to hack any of Facebook’s 2 billion accounts, and they paid me a $15,000 bounty for it” – not blocking brute-force attempts on 6-digit login codes can end up badly – link